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Rašić: Campaign continues, cancellation remains the option (KIM radio)

Progressive Democratic Party (PDS) will not cancel election campaign for the time being. Party leader Nenad Rašić is not excluding such possibility and adds that it will depend on future   developments. PDS leader Nenad Rašić says that their campaign will be led in a transparent manner. “We won’t bid with figures, we have the idea, which brings the future, however we don’t think that it will happen on 8 June,” said Rašić and added that no one else should bring decisions instead of citizens. He stressed that the goal of the PDS is to promote autonomous policy.

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Jacobson meets party leaders, calls for free and democratic elections (Lajmi)

On the second day of election campaign, leaders of main political parties in Kosovo gathered in a meeting called by the US Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson. Sources said that in the meeting, Jacobson made it clear to the leaders that her country expects the campaign and 8 June elections to be free and democratic. “The meeting focused on the election process Kosovo is going through.

Rikalo: Election material isn’t status neutral (Kontakt Plus radio)

Member of Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) Nenad Rikalo said today that the electoral material for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kosovo on the June 8th will not be status neutral, and among other things there are problems with voter lists and the appointment of electoral committees. Rikalo in a statement for Kontakt Plus radio said that today or tomorrow should be released the exact number of voters on the electoral roll "There are technical problems with the voter list, and still there are more voters than inhabitants in the territory of Kosovo.

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Boycott of the election campaign announced from Gračanica/Graçanicë too (RTK2)

Srpska Ticket condemned most sharply the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to change electoral boards and unofficial announcement on division of mandates and possibility that threshold for minority tickets could be set to 70.000 votes. Following decision of mayors of northern municipalities to freeze election activities due to CEC’s decision on composition of electoral boards and features of Kosovo’s statehood on ballots, Srpska Ticket also said that they most sharply condemn CEC’s decision. “We want to inform the public that we are giving up

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North threatens election boycott (Koha Ditore)

The paper reports on the front page that while Albanian political parties south of the Ibër/Ibar River have officially started their election campaigns, the Serb-inhabited northern municipalities have decided to do the opposite by stopping their electoral activities. Serbs are claiming that “decisions made by the Central Election Commission (CEC) are violating the law and rights of minority communities”. Northern Serbs say that the CEC decision to appoint voting center councils was not in accordance with the ethnic structure of the northern municipalities.

1.7 million citizens eligible to vote (Lajm)

The Central Election Commission (CEC) certified on Wednesday the final list of voters for the 8 June general elections. The list contains 1,782,454 names of voters, divided into 38 municipalities. Based on civil registration records, 33,735 voters will have the right to vote for the first time. During the CEC meeting, the accreditation of 430 electoral observers was also certified.

Election campaign starts officially (Lajm)

The official campaign for the 8 June elections started in Kosovo, after the “pre-election campaign”. The Kosovo Assembly has 120 seats, but 20 are reserved for minority communities, including ten for Serbs and the rest for other non-Serb communities. The Central Election Commission (CEC) has certified 30 participating entities, including 18 political parties, seven civic initiatives, one independent candidate and four coalitions, with a total of 1,235 candidates running.